January
Senior SRE, Software Engineering
New York City · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 384 days ago
AWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDPrometheusDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringData EngineeringIncident ResponseCommunication
About the role
- As a Senior SRE you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of January's production and internal systems as we scale from thousands to millions of borrowers.
- Your work will directly tackle our current scaling challenges including database optimization, async workflow infrastructure, and data pipeline reliability while ensuring our engineering team can ship with confidence.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with DevX to design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary) that enable teams to ship confidently and rapidly
- Advocate for best practices early in feature design, ensuring we design with reliability in mind and future-proof our services
Requirements
- Expertise leading incident response for high-availability production systems, thorough root cause analysis, and fostering blameless postmortem culture
- Track record of implementing effective monitoring & observability solutions (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK), and evangelizing best practices
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation to enable reliable, efficient deployments
Skills
- Excellent communication skills with experience documenting processes and collaborating across engineering teams
Compensation
- As a New York City-based company, we are dedicated to transparent, fair, and equitable compensation practices that reflect our commitment to fostering an environment where all team members are valued and supported.
Benefits
- Experience designing highly available deployment architectures across multiple targets (e.g. EC2, Fargate), with expertise in auto-scaling, health checks, and graceful degradation strategies
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